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S. M. CASEY Sept. z 1924.

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Patented Sept. 2, 1924.

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STEPHEN M. CASEY, 0F SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

DOOR.

Application led June 12, 1923. Serial No. 344,907',V

To au whom t may concer/n.:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN M. Casar, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and the State ofy California, have inventedcertain new and useful-improvements in Doors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates toa door construction provided with a light opening, a pocket having closures in the form of hinged watertables, said pocket being below the light opening and the watert-ables forming, when in closed position the lower margin of said opening, sashes having respectively transparent panes and screens, with counterbalancing Weights for the sash having the pane, and vertical runways on each side of the door for the said weights to work in.

The object of the invention is to provide a door with a transparent panel and with a screen, either of which may be used, the g one not in use being, usually, dropped into the pocket; For example in cold or rainy weather the screen may be drop ed into the pocket, in good weather the glass portion may be lowered into the pocket and the screen lifted into place.

p The invention. consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter pointed out, set tenth in the claim, and shown in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a door, partly broken out and in section, both sashes Abeing lifted into upper position to more clearly show the construction of the door.

Figure 2 is a vertical section through the door, a lower portion being broken away.

Figure 3 is a partial side elevation, the door being broken away and shown partly in section to show one 'of the side runways for a weight.

Figure 4 is a section on the line H of Figure 3.

vigures 5 and 6 are detail views of a pulley and its mounting.

Figure 7 is a plan view ofia watertable hinge. I

In the drawings 1 desi ates the bottom rail, 2 the up er rail, 3 t e stiles, one only of which is s own, and 4 the-.center rails.

These center rails are placed parallel to each other and spaced apart, as will be seen in Figure 1, and panels 5, inner and outer, connect these rails with the bottom rail -l. The rails 4 and the panels 5 form between them a pocket 6 of suilicient size .to receive the sashes to be described. hereafter.

This ypocket is closed, normally, at the top by two hinged watertables 7 the hinges being indicated ,at 7, said watertables interlocking to make them watertight.

The upper rail 2 is grooved on its lower edge as at 8, these grooves forming receivers for the upper'edges of sashes 9 and 10, and being of sufficient depth to allow the sashes to be lifted suiiiciently to permit lifting of the watertables. Sash 9 is provided with a transparent panel, such as glass, and sash 10, which is lighter -in construction, with a screen 10a. These sashes are held in place by removable side stops 11, and by the rooves 8, and when in operative position, that is raised as in Figure 1, rest on the watertables. The stiles are recessed and the recess closed at the front by a vertical panel 12 forming back of it a vertical runway, in each stile, indicated at 13. Pulle s 14 are placed in the upper portions of t e panels l2, and cords 16 run over the pulleys and are connected to weights 17 that work in the runways 13, and to o posite sides of the sash 9. Owing to its lig t construction the screen sash 10 does not require weights.

lin the drawing I have shown both sashes lifted, but in practice one of them would be lowered into the pocket 6.y In Figure 2 l have shown in dotted lines the sash 9 so lowered and have dotted the position of the watertable under it in the position it would occupy The door can be formed in'any size desired, and the parts may be of any suitable material.

What ll claim is:- I A door having 'an opening defined by stiles and top, center, and bottom rails, the

center rails being spaced apart, solid panels connecting each center rail with the bottom rail to provide a pocket to house sash, a pair of sash adapted to be housed in such when swung outwardly to permit lowering or raising of the sash.

pocket, the upper rail bein recessed to relatter is raised, the meeting edges of the sills ceive the upper ends of suc sash when the interfitting to prevent leakage therethrough same are raised above the center rails, and a and to tend to hold said sills in fixed poeket- 10 sill hingedly connected to the upper edge of closing relation when either sash is in raised each center rai-l, said sills adapted to meet position. centrally above the pocket to each afford a In testimony whereof I aliix my signature.

support for the respective sash when lthe STEPHENM. CASEY.' 

